Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

À Côtes is an old heritage apple from the Hainaut region, immediately recognisable by its strongly ribbed red and yellow fruit. The juicy flesh combines pronounced sweetness with lively acidity, creating an intense flavour and expressive juice. We recommend it to enthusiasts seeking a distinctive old apple for fresh eating or cooking. Its main strength is flavour rather than exceptionally long storage.

A côtes

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

À Côtes apple tree, a strongly flavoured sweet-sharp apple, picked in late September and stored until January.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 3782 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

À Côtes apple tree produces apples with intense flavour, combining strong sweetness and marked acidity.

The juice is very expressive on the palate, making this a characterful apple for those who enjoy rich, full-flavoured fruit.

The apples are picked during the second half of September and can be stored until January.

À Côtes shows good overall disease resistance.

Flowering is mid-late. The French source mentions Baguette Violette as a pollinating variety, but this point should be checked before publication because the original text uses another variety name in that sentence.

À Côtes is also known locally under several synonyms, including Pan à Côtes, Calvi de Prairie, Sans Pépin and Double à Côtes.

We supply this apple tree in several forms and on different rootstocks, depending on availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old variety from Hauts-de-France, linked to the Nord department and found under various names in Hainaut and the Pévèle area; it probably corresponds to the Double à côtes cited in 1948.

Origin

France

Flowering

5 - very late

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Sans pépin (à Bersée), Calvi de prairie (à Taisnière-Sur-Hon), Pan à côtes (à Jolimetz), Double à côtes

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Vigorous, hardy open-grown variety, preferably trained as a standard tree

Disease behaviour

Scab

Very low susceptibility on leaves and fruits

Powdery mildew

Low susceptibility

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 5 - very late.

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